There was much drama from the start of the culvert construction until the end. We contacted Henry in March. Between permitting and ordering materials and Henry accepting a bigger job than he could handle…construction started in July–4 months later. We could FINALLY drive onto our land mid-September. The county would not allow us to build […]
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When we tell people about our culvert, they cannot possibly understand what we are talking about. If you even KNOW what a culvert is, then you typically picture the round concrete pipe that the driveway goes over. Ours is a very special culvert. Just a review of our timeline…We bought our property mid-January. By mid-March […]
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As we continued struggling with our culvert, we proceeded to move forward with plans to build a house on our property (once we finally had access…). We put our house up for sale in April…had a contract on it in less than 3 weeks and closed the end of May. We figured that once the […]
Continue readingMore TagThe Culvert- Our first hurdle
Over the course of the next 6 months, the culvert will become our biggest regret buying our property. Let me back up to pre-sale of our property. In the HAR description, it stated “Culvert must be installed per county specifications.” We thoroughly read the county page and from everything we could figure, the county will […]
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It has always been a dream of ours to have a small piece of land. Ok…or a big piece of land. But God is not making anymore so it is hard to come by. After looking for months (well really years if you count the time from when we first got married and started looking), […]
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